Italian Teaching Fellow
Romance Languages and Literatures
Education and Interests
Maura received her M.A. in Comparative Literature at “L'Orientale” University, in Naples, Italy, with concentrations in English and Japanese. For her B.A. thesis she wrote on literary influences in Jack Kerouac's Visions of Cody, and for her M.A. thesis she did a comparative reading of Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Okamoto Kanoko's “Kawa.” Her main areas of interests are American Literature, Asian Philosophy and Poetry.